Nuclear and Particle Physics applications of the Bohm Picture of Quantum Mechanics

TL;DR

This paper explores the Bohm Picture of Quantum Mechanics to develop approximation methods for particle and field motions, offering new insights, reinterpretations, and testable predictions in nuclear and particle physics.

Contribution

It introduces novel approximation techniques within the Bohm framework, providing reinterpretations and new testable predictions beyond standard quantum theory.

Findings

New approximation methods for particle trajectories

Reinterpretation of existing quantum solutions

Testable predictions unique to the Bohm Picture

Abstract

Approximation methods for calculating individual particle/ field motions in spacetime at the quantum level of accuracy (a key feature of the Bohm Picture of Quantum Mechanics (BP)), are studied. Modern textbook presentations of Quantum Theory are used throughout, but only to provide the necessary, already existing, tested formalisms and calculational techniques. New coherent insights, reinterpretations of old solutions and results, and new (in principle testable) quantitative and qualitative predictions, can be obtained on the basis of the BP that complete the standard type of postdictions and predictions.